it's the economy, stupid. you're running against a president with 8% unemployment and 1.3% gdp growth. i can't imagine why you would talk about anything else, especially race, which this president i think has done a wonderful job of leading us on. >> eric, why a speech from 2007 being released now, tonight? is it anything other than politics or why do you think it's significant? >> well, i think there's an expression of frustration on the right, among a lot of people who feel like major members of the media have spent a lot of time vetting republicans in a way they never did about barack obama, including this and from what i'm being told tonight, there's actually a portion of this that we haven't seen, and i think it feeds into a perception on the right that the media hasn't really vetted barack obama as they have republicans, and that you have the democratic national committee tonight already sending out press releases of reporters' reactions being dismissive of this. there's a huge perception on the right th